{"id":1061,"date":"2008-07-29T09:53:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T13:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2008-07-29T09:53:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T13:53:28","slug":"obama-veepstakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/07\/29\/obama-veepstakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Veepstakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I can&#8217;t say that any of the three names being splashed about this morning &#8211; Biden, Bayh, and Kaine &#8211; are particularly inspiring.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Joe Biden, in addition to possessing the auto-disqualification of never knowing when to shut up, can be counted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/story\/2008\/7\/29\/195\/01837\">to introduce or support one bad policy position after another<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 No thanks.\u00c2\u00a0 Evan Bayh . . . well, if I wanted <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/2008\/07\/the_case_against_evan_bayh.html\">a warmonger<\/a> in the VP slot, I&#8217;d probably want one at the head of the ticket.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Which then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/28\/AR2008072802041.html?hpid=topnews\">brings us to Tim Kaine<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;ve been particularly enthused by Kaine (I think he&#8217;s been a generally competent, though not really a standout, governor).\u00c2\u00a0 But neither does he elicit a visceral pushback in me the way Biden or Bayh do.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, I&#8217;ll be happy to find out that this was just more of the usual campaign misdirection\/press overeagerness, and that it hasn&#8217;t really been narrowed down to these guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I can&#8217;t say that any of the three names being splashed about this morning &#8211; Biden, Bayh, and Kaine &#8211; are particularly inspiring.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Joe Biden, in addition to possessing the auto-disqualification of never knowing when to shut up, can be counted on to introduce or support one bad policy position after another.\u00c2\u00a0 No thanks.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}